• Faculty
• Visiting Professors '08/09
• Honorary Fellows
• Post-Doctoral Fellows
• Project Archelogos Research Staff
• Philosophers Outside the Philosophy Department
• Secretarial Staff

Faculty

Name	Title	Research Interest
Clark, Andy	Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Head of Subject Area	Philosophy of Mind, Artificial Intelligence, including robotics, artificial life, embodied cognition, and mind, technology and culture
Brown, Campbell	Lecturer	Ethical Theory
Chrisman, Matthew	Lecturer	Ethical Theory, Epistemology
Dawson, Hannah	Lecturer (Joint appointment with School of History & Classics)	Early modern intellectual history, history of political thought, Locke
Gold, Natalie	Lecturer	Philosophy of Social Science, Decision Theory, Ethics
Kallestrup, Jesper	Lecturer	Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
Ketland, Jeffrey	Senior Lecturer	Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science
Kupreeva, Inna	Lecturer	Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy
Levy, David	Fixed-Term Lecturer	Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology and Philosophical Psychology
Mason, Elinor	Lecturer	Moral Philosophy
McCarthy, David	Reader	Ethics
Nudds, Matthew	Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Director	Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Psychology, Perception, especially auditory perception
Phemister, Pauline	Reader	History of modern Philosophy, especially Leibniz, Philosophy of Nature
Pritchard, Duncan	Professor of Epistemology, Deputy Head of School and Director of Graduate Studies	Epistemology
Richmond, Alasdair	Lecturer	Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy of Science, the British Empiricists, Philosophy of Space and Time
Ridge, Michael	Professor of Moral Philosophy	Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Action Theory, Philosophy of Mind.
Scaltsas,Theodore	Professor of Ancient Philosophy	Ancient Philosophy, Contemporary Metaphysics
Vierkant, Tillmann	Lecturer, Senior Tutor	Philosophy of Mind

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Visiting Professors '08/09

Semester One

Name	Title	Research Interest
John Kulvicki	Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College	Philosophy of Perception

Semester Two

Name	Title	Research Interest
Leemon McHenry	Professor at California State University, Northridge	Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Medical Ethics

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Honorary Fellows

Name	Title	Research Interest
Vinit Haksar	Formerly Reader in Philosophy	Political and Moral Philosophy, Personal Identity.
Michael Menlowe	Formerly Reader in Philosophy	Philosophy of Law, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy.
Bill Pollard	Honorary Research Fellow	Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, later Wittgenstein, McDowell
William Stirton		Logic, Philosophy of Logic
Barbara Scholz		Philosophy of Language
Crispin Wright	Global Distinguished Professor at NYU and Executive Director of the Arche research centre, St. Andrews	Epistemology, Philosophy of Language and Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Post-Doctoral Fellows

Name	Title	Research Interest
Julian Kiverstein	Post-doctoral fellow in the CONTACT project	Philosophy of Mind
Stephen Watt		Ancient Philosophy

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Project Archelogos Research Staff

Name	Title	Research Interest
Anna Marmodoro		Ancient Philosophy
Kenneth Moore		Ancient Philosophy
Panos Kapetanakis		Ancient Philosophy
Andrew Mason		Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics

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Philosophers Outside the Philosophy Department

There are a number of faculty members at the University of Edinburgh with philosophical interests but who work in Departments other than Philosophy. Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these academics.

Name	Title	Research Interest
Thomas Ahnert	Lecturer in History	Early Modern Philosophy
Zen Bankowski	Professor of Law	Philosophy of Law
David Bloor	Professor of Science Studies	Philosophy of Science
Emily Brady	Lecturer in Geography	Aesthetics
Douglas Cairns	Professor of Classics	Ancient Philosophy
David Carr	Professor of Education	Philosophy of Education
Claire Colebrook	Professor of English Literature	Continental Philosophy
Lucas Dickson	Researcher in Infomatics	Formal Philosophy
Andrew Erskine	Professor of Classics	Ancient Philosophy
Cecile Fabre	Professor of Political Theory	Political Philosophy
David Fergusson	Professor of Divinity	Philosophy of Religion
Nick Phillipson	Honorary Fellow in History	Early Modern Philosophy
Paul Schweizer	Senior Lecturer in Infomatics	Logic
Keith Stenning	Professor of Infomatics	Formal Philosophy
Simon Trepanier	Lecturer in Classics	Ancient Philosophy

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Secretarial Staff

Contact	Address	Email
Undergraduate Teaching Office	General enquiries should be made to: School Office School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences The University of Edinburgh Dugald Stewart Building	School Secretary

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